Good post by Lorena A. Barba on why video-based learning is not the best of options. Why My MOOC is Not Built on Video – MOOC Report A MOOC professor takes a contrarian view and creates a MOOC without relying on videos, and makeing the claim that they are not necessary for a meaningful online […]

An essay (pre-print) by +David Wiley on MOOCs (more specifically, xMOOCS of the Coursera/Udacity type) and Open Education. A must read to clarify some important issues that seem to be overlooked by most MOOC providers. The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure The following is a pre-print of an essay set to appear in […]

This is an interesting development regarding higher education. “Purdue creates competency degree program” http://feedly.com/e/CVQ3V_Vr Purdue creates competency degree program « Online Learning Update by Haley Dover, Journal Courier. Purdue University on Thursday introduced a competency degree program, putting students in control of their education. The College of Technology program allows students to progress at their […]

From his brand new home on the web, Martin Weller asks Why don’t we talk about PLEs anymore? and then provides a handful of reasons. He is mostly right if one accepts his idea of the concept which, in my opinion, is an oversimplified view of what a PLE is, focusing on the tools only. […]